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|- ! A.D. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1347. || Occam died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1348. || The Great Plague, the Black Death. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1358. || The Jacquerie in France. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1360. || In China the Mongol (Yuan) Dynasty fell, and was succeeded by the Ming Dynasty (to 1644). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1367. || Timurlane assumed the title of Great Khan. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1377. || Pope Gregory XI returned to Rome. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1378. || The Great Schism. Urban VI in Rome, Clement VII at Avignon. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1381. || Peasant revolt in England. Wat Tyler murdered in the presence of King Richard II. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1384. || Wycliffe died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1398. || Huss preached Wycliffism at Prague. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1405. || Death of Timurlane. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1414-18. || The Council of Constance. Huss burnt (1415). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1417. || The Great Schism ended, Martin V Pope. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1420. || The Hussites revolted. Martin V preached a crusade against them. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1431. || The Catholic Crusaders dissolved before the Hussites at Domazlice. The Council of Basle met. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1436. || The Hussites came to terms with the church. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1439. || Council of Basle created a fresh schism in the church. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1445. || Discovery of Cape Verde by the Portuguese. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1446. || First printed books (Coster in Haarlem). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1449. || End of the Council of Basle. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1453. || Ottoman Turks under Muhammad II took Constantinople. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1480. || Ivan III, Grand-duke of Moscow, threw off the Mongol allegiance. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1481. || Death of the Sultan Muhammad II while preparing for the conquest of Italy. Bayazid II Turkish Sultan (to 1512). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1486. || Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1492. || Columbus crossed the Atlantic to America. Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI, Pope (to 1503). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1493. || Maximilian I became Emperor. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1498. || Vasco da Gama sailed round the Cape to India. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1499. || Switzerland became an independent republic. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1500. || Charles V born. |}